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Three fights in first nine seconds of US vs. Canada game at 4 Nations www.detroitnews.com/story/sports...

Death Stranding (2019)

Get ready for Trumpflation.

When we unionized a few years ago, a lot of peanut gallery types on social media wanted to tell me it would be the end of Wired. Hope it’s now clear (thanks mostly to our insanely talented and hardworking politics team) that it does not work that way. Unions are good.

we are witnessing a master at work

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

60 Billion in value wiped out in thirty minutes.

A guy with his mind fried by ketamine and a 24/7/365 diet of Nazi shitposts is inside the federal government’s general payments system canceling whatever he personally decides looks like fraud while taking legal advice from his own busted AI chatbot, that’s the status report?

WATCH: Canadians booing the U.S. national anthem at NBA game in Toronto

Absolutely brutal scroll on Fox.

I'm not reporting on this at all, so this is just a lazy take. But I cannot come up with a scenario where this isn't a total disaster for Trump. Even if he can convince business to internalize some costs, even if he can offset with tax cuts: He's still just thrown a grenade into the U.S. economy.

USA losing the tariff war to Canada

Tariff this

When I give up on my SimCity 2000 game and start bulldozing major geographic features.

The highest-ranking career Treasury official is departing after a clash with Elon Musk surrogates over DOGE’s access to a sensitive Treasury payments system that handles trillions of dollars a year: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

this administration’s science policy

25 Democratic senators voted to confirm this guy two days ago

Cheryl Hines being in the background of the RFK testimony makes it ten times more funny.

At least 15 Indigenous people in Arizona and New Mexico have reported being stopped at their homes and workplaces, questioned or detained by federal law enforcement and asked to produce proof of citizenship during immigration raids since Wednesday, according to Navajo Nation officials.

"oh ho, but just last year you said running people over with with a big steamroller was wrong!” I exclaim delightedly as my enemy fatally runs me over with a big steamroller. it seems I have won this battle of wits

BREAKING: Debris seen over the Caribbean after SpaceX's Starship explodes during test flight

[seeing a guy pouring gasoline into the sewer, for some reason] fuck I gotta text comedian whitney cummings about this

Breaking: Brush fire breaks out in the Hollywood Hills. It is burning east of Runyon Canyon. Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for those near the blaze. Get the details at abc7.com/live-updates...

Trump: We will strangle the scarecrow child for national spaghetti purposes Fox: Strangle plan is smart strategically CNN: Voters talk scarecrow child at national spaghetti diner NYT: Pomp And Spaghettistance? Trump Muses On Scarecrow Child's Fate Meta: We are donating $1m to the strangle fund

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/07/b...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the French far right leader, died today. If you wonder how many French people feel about that, these are the scenes of celebration on the streets of Paris this evening. One sign reads “The dirty racist is dead”. (🎥 Luc Auffret)